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Research Centers

Research centers are created to bring together teams of researchers to work on significant scientific or engineering problems or areas. Typically, a sponsor provides funding to support the research activity of the team's members. Research centers often engage PIs (principle investigators), and their associated groups of students and postdoctoral scholars, from multiple school's at Georgia Tech, other universities, and government laboratories. PIs (faculty members) from the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry are active in many different research centers, several of which are based within our school.

Chemical cues constitute the language in which many of the “instructions” for biotic interactions are written. The Aquatic Chemical Ecology Center brings together ecologists, chemists, sensory biologists, engineers, and quantitative modelers to translate this language from chemistry into ecology.

How life began is arguably one of the most intriguing questions of our time. The scientific objective of the Center for Chemical Evolution is to demonstrate that small molecules within a model inventory of prebiotic chemistry can self-assemble into polymers that resemble RNA and proteins.

CCMST provides computer resources for collaborative and individual projects involving experimentalists and theoreticians in our school and elsewhere on campus. It also hosts computational chemistry classes and workshops.

The Center for Drug Design, Development, and Delivery, or CD4, is a center for research and education that employs the combined strengths of engineering and physical science at Georgia Tech to solve problems in an interdisciplinary fashion.

COPE is a national research and educational resource center. It focuses on the creation of flexible organic photonic and electronic materials, and devices containing these materials, that can be used in the information technology, telecommunications, energy, and defense sectors.

The ICRC seeks to integrate the diverse technological, computational, scientific, and medical expertise at Georgia Tech and partner institutions in a coordinated effort to develop improved cancer diagnostics and therapeutics.

Molecular Evolution Core Facility is a recently open facility housed in an 800-sq.-ft. suite on the second floor of the Engineered Biosystems Building. The purpose of the facility is to provide a routine access to the molecular evolution methods and serve as a force-multiplier for any laboratory at Tech and beyond that is in search for new molecular catalysts or molecular binders.

The REVEALS team leverages a cohesive team of investigators to provide an integrated systems-level approach to understanding global effects of radiation from the chemical evolution of volatiles to human protection in future missions exploring airless bodies within our solar system. The Radiation Effects on Volatiles and Exploration of Asteroids and Lunar Surfaces (REVEALS) team, led by Professor Thomas M. Orlando at The Georgia Institute of Technology, is a node of NASA’s Solar System Exploration and Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI).

The mission of Georgia Tech's systems mass spectrometry core facility is to provide researchers with state-of-the-art scientific and technical support in modern proteomics and metabolomics. This requires a commitment to developing, implementing, and optimizing cutting-edge methodologies and instrumentation. In addition, we believe a strong commitment to educating researchers is important.

The school is engaged in cutting edge research across the full breadth or modern chemistry and biochemistry. Our activities bridge traditional boundaries between scientific disciplines and involve partnerships across the campus, around the country and internationally. Research lies as the core of graduate education in the chemical and biochemical sciences, but there are also many opportunities for Georgia Tech undergraduates to work alongside our Ph.D. researchers and graduate students to develop their professional skills.

Members of our distinguished faculty are engaged in the education of ~350 Chemistry or Biochemistry undergraduate majors, ~240 Chemistry graduate students and more than 2,000 other undergraduates each year through their service teaching activities. The school’s extensive and internationally recognized research programs engage its graduate students, ~110 PhD researchers, many undergraduates and collaborators, throughout the campus and from around the world, in cutting edge science. These programs are supported by a highly talented administrative, technical and scientific staff.

The School of Chemistry and Biochemistry benefits greatly from the generosity of it alumni and friends. Our alumni help guide the future of the school thorugh our advisory board and they also help our current students through mentoring and similar activities. Funds donatedby our alumni and friends, for immediate use or to provide support in perpetuity through the creation of an endowment, enable many different activities.